Beef - Its whats for dinner
Great reading and very timely.I am struggling with a new German Shorthair Pointer and I see much of myself and my farm and my dog in this well written article. Thanks for posting !!
That could be a very lucrative business for an individual willing to lease his time with his dog to take mushroom hunters out on their hunts.......
Pure love, ever so true.
4yrs is adolescent.
Dogs don’t learn to be humans until they’re at least 8, and usually 10yrs old.
That’s when they have mastered your entire vocabulary and can read your mind.
Nellie is calling you!
Read it, chuckled about the rat poison.
My little girl SOPHIE (Black Lab) got into one of the low kitchen cabinets when she was about 3 months old and ate a WHOLE POUND of rat poison.
Fortunately I happened to need something from that cabinet about 9:30 pm that night, I saw the torn up empty rat poison package and was able to get her into the vets emergency room.
They gave her something that made her puke her guts up and got the rat poison out of her, including some fairly large pieces of something they couldn’t identify.
They showed me the pieces and asked me if I knew what they were.
All I could say was “HOLY CRAP, SHE ATE A PAINT ROLLER”!
And not one of the little wienie rollers, a full sized paint roller.
SOPH is getting older now (15 years) but she is still my baby girl, and she loves her daddy as much as he loves her.
We had an emergency trip to the Vet on Sunday afternoon. Our 15 week old Yorkie/Maltese (Morkie) inhaled something while playing in the backyard. She was extremely distressed and made horrible noises trying to breathe. The Vet is half an hour away, so I knew this was an issue that needed to be resolved in the car before we got to the Vet.
My wife drove while I comforted the dog (”Piper”). I decided to massage her trachea upward toward her head as she struggled. About 4 blocks for the Vet’s office the object she inhaled decided to go down her esophagus instead of her trachea. Tuesday evening she passed what appeared to be a chunk of a small tree branch.
Like the dog in the article, Piper is instinctively drawn to foul smells, all kinds of skat, mouse traps and all kinds of poisons and poisonous plants. She’ll chew on just about anything. My wife is not pleased with her would-be lap dog. I’m a hunter, so I’m training her to retrieve. She’ll be about 12 to 13 pounds as an adult. Maybe I can put Piper in my game bag and pull her out to retrieve my ducks...
Oh, mercy ... I guess this is what we have to look forward to. We adopted a yellow lab last year. He has a thing for tupperware lids but so far (touch wood) the worst thing he’s managed to get down was a whole stick of butter. Amateur, I know.
He is a big chicken but very loud so we appreciate that. He sounds worse than he is.
He is no help at all on the farm, but a good companion so we’re keeping him.
I LOVE Labs! I’ve owned three; two blacks and a yellow. This author describes my Miss Lucy (yellow) to a T!
The only drawback with Labs is that it takes them so d@mn LONG to ‘grow up.’ By the time a Lab is 5 or so, you’re JUST starting to have a really good, well-trained dog.
Not many owners can hold out that long!
“instinct overrides obedience”
My little squirrel dog suffers that affliction.